<h1>Industry-Led National Chemistry Summit Pushes R&D, Digitalisation, Talent and Sustainability to Boost India's Chemical Competitiveness by 2040 &D</h1> A major industrial group hosted a national chemistry summit led by its chemicals and life-sciences units, convening industry, academic and research stakeholders to promote R&D, digitalisation, talent development and sustainability as drivers of competitiveness in India's chemical sector. The event emphasized scaling value-added manufacturing, industry-academia collaboration, green chemistry and IP-driven innovation to capture projected global market share gains by 2040, and launched an innovation benchmarking report assessing Indian R&D firms versus global peers. Legal considerations implicated include regulatory compliance, IP protection and transfer, public-private collaboration frameworks, and policy advocacy for supportive R&D incentives.